Huangfu Song, one of the three heroes of the late Han Dynasty, had a gray beard and several arrows in his body, one of which pierced his armor and submerged into his body, and his blood stained his inner lining. His armor was full of sword marks.

Huangfu Song only had the last few breaths left.

Chu Tian, Xu Fengnian and others did not expect that in order to plug the gap, Huangfu Song led the five schools of the Northern Army to resist the offensive of the Mongol army, and severely damaged the Roman legions, the Arab Empire servant army, and the Khorezm servant army, but the price paid was his life.

"Ahem, cough, cough ......" Huangfu Song wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his arm, he was already in his last years and contributed his last bit of strength to the Han Empire, "I didn't expect that my Huangfu Song Rong Ma died in Liangzhou after all, this should be regarded as a ...... Fallen leaves return to the roots......"

Everyone present was silent, and the atmosphere was unusually heavy and oppressive.

In order to revive the Han Empire, Huangfu Song suppressed the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Xiqiang Rebellion, fought in the east and the west, and fought in the last battle, guarding the Yumen Pass for the Han Empire, plugging the gap, and protecting the pass standing in the west of Liangzhou.

"Ahem, ahem...... After I die, please ask the general to bury me in the Jade Gate...... A pinch of loess is ...... You can ......"

Huangfu Song coughed violently, spat blood from his mouth, and the look in his eyes quickly faded.

Hua Tuo, the divine doctor who came with the army, shook his head gently, one of the arrows had already injured his vital point, and Huangfu Song's vitality faded too quickly, even Hua Tuo didn't have time to rejuvenate himself.

"General go, we will defeat Temujin and avenge you."

Chutian bid farewell to Huangfu Song, one of the three heroes of the late Han Dynasty, just like Lu Zhi that day, Huangfu Song did not seek a thick burial, did not need a wooden coffin, only buried himself in loess, and always guarded the Yumen Pass.

As Huangfu Song said, he was originally from Xiliang, born in Xiliang and died in Xiliang.

The surviving five colonels of the Northern Army and the Sanhe cavalry saw off the high-status Han general Huangfu Song.

In troubled times, too many famous generals have died.

"Ending such troubled times as soon as possible is the best way, otherwise Temujin conquers the empire, and more people will die in the Guannai......"

Xia Liang was worried that Chutian would be affected by this, so he persuaded him.

"This decisive battle in the Western Regions will definitely hit Temujin hard."

According to Huangfu Song's last words, Chu Tian asked him to be buried in the area of Yumen Pass and guard Yumen Pass.

All the defenders of Yumen Pass were silent, especially the five schools of the Northern Army and the Sanhe cavalry who followed Huangfu Song's expedition to the east and west, and the negative emotions of grief and grief were full of sadness, indignation and sadness.

Zhu Jun became the only survivor among the three heroes of the late Han Dynasty.

"Use stones and wood, patch gaps, bury corpses, and prevent the Mongol army from returning."

Xu Fengnian didn't care about falling into a low mood, and commanded the Xiliang Army to set up a wooden fence at the collapsed city wall, and behind the wooden fence, pile up stone walls, ready to fight at any time.

The Mongol army has not yet retreated.

Xu Fengnian counted the losses, and his Xiliang Army, stationed in Yumen Pass, had about seventy or eighty thousand troops, and until now, there are only thirty or forty thousand left.

The 100,000 Guanzhong reinforcements of Lao Qin lost three or four percent.

Feng Yi's Thorn Slaying Legion and Xie Ai's Wuwei County reinforcements each had losses.

Among them, Feng Yi's Thorn Slaying Army, the general Zhang He, was injured by the Mongolian army's trebuchet.

In fact, there were quite a few troops sent by Lao Qin to support Yumen Pass, a total of 130,000 people.

For the first time, Chu Tian noticed a small person named Xie Ai under the command of Old Qin.

Xie Ai is a little-known wise general, but if you know his experience, you shouldn't underestimate him.

The military generals of the Liangzhou forces of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (Qianliang), led the troops with scholars, and defeated the Central Plains and Guanzhong forces (Later Zhao) with fewer victories three times. The most glorious one, with 20,000 Liangzhou foot cavalry, defeated the 120,000 army in Guanzhong.

In the battle of Yumen Pass, Xie Ai's Wuwei County soldiers and horses played a key role in the end, buying time for the arrival of Chutian's reinforcements.

Temujin withdrew his troops, and he was helpless against Chu Zimou, the great general of the Han Empire.

He had always believed that the time for a decisive battle had not yet come, and he could not weaken Chu Tian's strength.

Regardless of the skirmish between Hetao and Monan, Temujin's damage to Chutian's forces was limited, and even his own losses were even greater.

This made Temujin even more wary of Chutian, believing that he must wait until the time was ripe before fighting Chutian.

Xu Fengnian, the prince of Xiliang, was almost negligible, and the Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun legions suffered heavy losses, and the real threat was the arriving Guards Legion.

Chutian was the most powerful prince of the Han Empire, and the Guards Legion was the most elite legion under Chutian's command, so Temujin did not dare to underestimate the Guards Legion.

Even Temujin's cowardly army did not dare to confront the Guards Legion head-on, because the Guards Legion had too many troops......

The Guards Regiment said it was a legion, but in fact there were several legions crammed into it......

"The Protectorate of the Western Regions is just a decoy, it's time to get out of the way of the Hexi Corridor to the Western Regions and lure it to the Western Regions. The Han Empire cannot afford too long supply lines, and victory will belong to Immortality! ”

Temujin ordered the troops to retreat.

The four cowardly Xue, Mu Huali, Bolhu, Borshu, and Chi Laowen, all gathered, and the cowardly Xue army, which Temujin had always been reluctant to use, almost maintained a complete establishment, and his main force had not suffered many casualties.

Temujin broke through the chariot formation of the Fifth Colonel of the Northern Army in Jiuquan County, and the cowardly Xue army with full body losses were few.

The four cowardly Xue glanced at the jade gate in the rear, unwilling.

In this expedition to the Western Regions, Temujin began to gather all the main generals and attract Chutian and others to the Western Regions.

As for Mobei, there are still tens of millions of tribes and hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen, and Temujin can use the teleportation array to return to Mobei at any time.

The scouts deployed in the border fortress of the Han Empire will send the information of the Han Empire's sneak attack on Mobei as soon as possible.

What is important is not the deployment of generals, but the deployment of troops.

Temujin could quickly move around the city, relying on the convenience of the teleportation array, as long as the cavalry was deployed in various places, he could come to a city at any time and command the cavalry to fight quickly.

On the contrary, because the teleportation array has a limited number of people to teleport each day, it is very costly, so it is practically impossible to achieve the rapid mobility of a 100,000-strong legion.

Chu Tian gathered troops and horses in Jiuquan County and spent several days.

The Four Pioneers of Tanma Chi, Monk Wanyan Chen, Ali Hague, Crassus, Yelu Chucai and others all glanced at Yumen Pass before leaving this place.

They knew that the Western Regions would be the battlefield of a decisive battle between the main forces of the two empires.

Temujin's strategy was two-scenario, the best scenario was to capture Yumen Pass and annex the Western Regions, and then divide the troops into three routes, attacking Guanlong, Bingzhou, and Youzhou, and annexing the Han Empire.

Secondly, the failure of the attack on Yumen Pass attracted the main force of the Han Empire to the Western Regions, and then annihilated it in a field battle, severely damaged the main force of the Han Empire, killed its main generals, and then attacked the Han Empire.

"The battle in the east is too cruel, with 100,000 dead and wounded at every turn, and my Roman legions ......"

Crassus's Roman legions were heavily damaged by the Han army of Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, and half of the five thousand people died, leaving Crassus bleeding in his heart.

The lives of the Roman legions, in the eyes of the Great Khan Temujin, were not human lives, but bargaining chips in the contest with the Han Empire.

That night, the broken Mongolian cavalry burned 50 Xiangyang cannons, and the fire was pervasive, alarming the defenders of Yumen Pass who were resting.

Chu Tian wore a cloak and climbed the city to look out, and the large counterweight trebuchet that made countless Han Empire princes covet was burned by the Mongol cavalry.

Temujin did not want the Han Empire princes to get their hands on such siege weapons, preferring to burn them.

Large siege engines were difficult to transport, and when troops were withdrawn, they were often destroyed, leaving nothing behind the defenders.

"Temujin did withdraw his troops, which further confirmed our suspicion that Temujin wanted to lead us to the Western Regions."

Chu Tian's eyes reflected the sky-high firelight, he had already seen through Temujin's plan, but he, together with Lao Qin and Xu Fengnian, had to take the risk to save Huo An.

This is Temujin's impotence.

The Han Empire did not save the Western Regions, so Temujin annexed the Western Regions, controlled the 36 countries of the Western Regions, and connected them with the Chagatai Khanate, the Ilkhanate, and the Golden Horde, and then rewarded the land and population to Ögedai, which spent two or three years, and maybe could re-establish the khanate.

Once Temujin was connected with the four khanates, the Tubo, Guanlong, Hetao, and Youzhou regions of the Han Empire would all face tremendous pressure.

Huo An was just unlucky, and he happened to sit in the position of the protector of the Western Regions.

"The lord of Tubo, can he send reinforcements into the Western Regions Protectorate?"

"The population of the Tibetan region is not large, and they probably have their own troubles, and most of them are unable to send reinforcements."

"It seems that it still depends on us and Lao Qin."

Chu Tian took his hand and looked at the Western Regions.

Knowing that this was Temujin's trap, he had to go on an expedition to the Western Regions in order to gain points and relieve the siege of the Western Regions.

"It is said that Lao Qin has defeated the main force of Li Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia, and the Golden Fire Cavalry has also suffered a lot of losses."

Xu Fengnian was paying attention to the movements of Lao Qin.

If Chu Tian went on an expedition to the Western Regions Capital Protectorate alone, the price he would bear would be too expensive, so someone had to share the cost.

Lao Qin, who runs the 8,000-mile Qinchuan River, is the best ally for the expedition to the Western Regions.

The price of sending troops to Luntai is even less than the price of Chutian's transfer of troops from Monan, Bingzhou, Jizhou and other places. Because, the Guanlong area is closer to the Luntai, the seat of the Western Regions Protectorate.

"Lao Qin promised to send 10 to 200,000 troops, plus the reinforcements from Yumen Pass, the strength should be more than 200,000. Huo An has been operating in the Western Regions for many years, and the mobilization rate in the Western Regions is higher, so it should not be a problem to recruit 20 to 300,000 troops. Together with my troops, the expeditionary force has half a million troops. The total strength of the Western Regions is seven or eight hundred thousand. ”

An army of seven or eight hundred thousand is already the limit of the strength that the Western Regions can bear, and the supply is extremely difficult.

Not to mention, it is necessary to leave part of the troops to hold Tubo, Hexi Corridor, and Monan Grassland.

Mingguan was still worried about the rebellion in eastern Liao, and the rebel army of Goryeo also made Mingguan exhausted.

"The expedition to the Western Regions is full of dangers, but it has to be done as a last resort. We are not necessarily defeated by Temujin. Temujin led us to a decisive battle in the Western Regions, perhaps a trap he had planted for himself. ”

Luntai, the seat of the Western Regions Protectorate, is located at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and the northern edge of the Tarim Basin, and is the royal city of Luntai, one of the 36 countries in the Western Regions.

Later, Li Guangli, a general of the Western Han Dynasty, captured Luntai City, and took this place as the center to lead the countries of the Western Regions, which is currently controlled by Huo'an.

Huo An rebuilt the Western Regions Protectorate, conquered the Western Regions countries, and rebuilt the authority of the Western Regions Protectorate, and the people of Luntai City were available, with a population of 400,000.

Huo An's subordinate Gao Xianzhi drove the captive population, cattle and sheep from Yemili City, the royal city of the Ögedai Khanate, to Luntai City to enrich the population and livestock of Luntai City.

"After the lord judged, he has not returned to the division at this time, he must have been chased by enemy cavalry, you defend the city, and I will lead the army back to rescue."

Gao Xianzhi simply ordered the officials of Luntai City, and then led a team of cavalry to attack.

In the rear, Huo An and generals such as Chen Tang, Tang Mi, King Wusun, and King Loulan were caught up by the cavalry of Yelu Dashi and Ogedei, and were assaulted by the Mongol cavalry!

Ögedai and the remnants of the Ögedai Khanate personally led the Khanate's cavalry to assault Hoan's cavalry head-on!

Yelu Dashi led 200 Khitan cavalry and 20,000 Central Asian cavalry to assault the Loulan king's Loulan servant army from the flank, and the war horses galloped at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and the sand and dust were flying.

Although the number of two hundred Khitan cavalry is small, the combat power is extremely amazing, breaking into the army of Loulan State, the soldiers of Loulan State along the way can not be stopped, and the Central Asian cavalry in the rear follows the gap opened by the Khitan cavalry, all the way through.

The horse lance in Yelu Dashi's hand was thrown out and nailed King Loulan to the ground!

The army of Loulan collapsed and was defeated by the Khitan cavalry and the Central Asian cavalry!

Yelu Dashi broke through the flank of Huo'an's army, pulled out his horse lance, and led the cavalry to storm Huo'an's main formation!

"Lord, please retreat, I will lead the cavalry and block them!"

The warriors of the Dawan Kingdom were tormented, and led a team of Dawan soldiers to intercept Yelu Dashi and urge Huo An to retreat.

"All the soldiers are fighting to the death, how can I retreat!"

Huo An was chased and killed by Yelu Dashi and Wokotai, and the general Huo Quai's illness went to contain Subutai, and the lack of generals blocked the joint attack of Wokotai and Yelu Dashi at the same time.

The soldiers of the Ogedai Khanate were furious when they learned that their families had been plundered by Huo'an, as Yelu Dashi said, the morale was available, and the Khanate's cavalry fought hard, but the morale of Huo'an's side was at a disadvantage.

Huo An could barely resist, thanks to the army of the Western Regions Protectorate of the Han general Chen Tang.

"Protect the lord's retreat!"

Chen Tang could not resist the cavalry of the Ögedai Khanate, which fought to the death, and there was also a cavalry of Yelu Dashi, who dominated Central Asia, from the flank, so that everyone could not be spared.

As long as Huo An is kept, with the solidity and popular support of Luntai City, it can be fully supported until the arrival of the Han Empire army.

Huo An's own soldiers forcibly took him away.

Chen Tang and the nobles of the Dawan Kingdom stayed behind and led their troops to resist the Mongol cavalry of the Ögedai Khanate and the Central Asian cavalry of Yelu Dashi.

After Huo An left, two cavalry troops overwhelmed the army of Chen Tang and Tang Mi. Fighting hard, spears stabbed at him, he blocked with his shield, and then killed the attacking Central Asian cavalry with his spears.

The cavalry of the Dawan Kingdom collapsed quickly under the offensive of the Central Asian cavalry, and the bonus of Yelu Dashi was far higher than that of a general of the Dawan Kingdom like Yan Mi.

In order to protect Huo An from leaving, he was hit hundreds of times, and a horse lance pierced through Zaomi's chest!

Yelu Dashi pulled out the bloody horse lance, and looked at this Dawan military general who served Huo An with cold eyes.

Huo An has some charm after all, so that an alien race of the Great Wan Kingdom will fight to the death in order to protect him.

Yan Mi lowered his head, looked at the hole in his chest, and then looked at Yelu Dashi: "My lord, will avenge me......"

"He's no match for me."

Yelu Dashi turned his head to kill Chen Tang's cavalry, intending to kill Huo An's general.